"What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in 2½ hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years," Hanfstaengl said.
"Because of his miraculous throat construction, he was able to create a rhapsody of hysteria. In time,
he became the living unknown soldier of Germany." Ernst Hanfstaengl - from wikipedia
prop·a·gan·da
/ˌprɒpəˈgændə/[prop-uh-gan-duh]
noun1.information,ideas,or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person,group,movement, institution,nation,etc.
2.the deliberate spreading of such information,rumors,etc.
3.the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement. From Dictionary.com
Eugenics:
a science that deals with the improvement (as by control of human mating) of hereditary qualities of a race or breed From Merriam Webster's Dictionary online.
Examples of SS uniforms and other Nazi symbols
Heinrich Himmler: Head of the SS Nazi Anti-Semitic Cartoons Hitler Youth Propaganda Posters
Know the meanings of eugenics, euthanasia and the Lebensborn program.
Einsatzgruppen
Click here to see the Nazis who attended the Wannsee Conference and decided on the Final Solution
"Peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time". Neville Chamberlain
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war!" Winston Churchill
Watch this original footage of a Stuka dive bomber during an attack in the Blitzkrieg: .
Attack at Pearl Harbor:
Map of the Pacific. Note where Hawaii is.
A tribute to the US service men and women who died at Pearl Harbor:
The Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 (How much time had passed since the attack on Pearl Harbor?)
Superb Doolittle's Raiders Link
" The bombing of Tokyo and several other cities has brought about a tremendous change in the attitude
of our people towards the war. Now things are different. The bombs have dropped here on our homes.
It does not seem any more that there is a such a big difference between the battle front and the home front".
- from a letter written by a Japanese civilian
Click on the poster below to go to the "Homefront"
View of a sinking Japanese warship from the periscope of a US submarine
Read about the WW2 incident that made future president "JFK" a hero here PT-109
Click on the above map to learn more about the German defenses along the Normandy coast.
Listen to General Eisenhower's D-Day speech to the troops: Eisenhower's DDay Speech Normandy Invasion Interactive Map
Hear FDR's famous prayer for the troops on D-Day.
Read about the famous "Bedford Boys" here. Battle of the Bulge Click on the link. Read the Battle of the Bulge summary.
1. What stood out to you about the summary?
2. Look at the various US and German uniforms under the summary. What can you learn about the Battle of tghe Bulge from these uniforms?
3. Look at the map below. What significance do you think the town of Bastogne had on the battle?
Battle of the Bulge map from http://www.olive-drab.com/images/map_bulge_1944_full.jpg
What was the name of the German officer and the unit name who were behind the massacre?
What happened to many of the Germans that were involved after the war?
Malmedy Massacre Photo
Ted Paluch 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion...survivor of Malmedy Massacre on left Joachim Peiper, 1st SS officer at Malmedy on right.
"The success of this occupation can only be judged fifty years from now. If the Germans
at that time have a stable, prosperous democracy, then we shall have succeeded".
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945
Study the invasion of North Africa, Sicily and Italy (note we did not go into much detail here)
Study the Home Front- Click on the poster "Somebody blabbed" to go to the Home Front page. Also look at the notes for the Home Front.
Study the Air War- Click on the link that says "Air War" and use the page of notes that I gave you.
Study D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge and the end of the war in Germany using the fill in notes as well as the variety of pictures, homework assignments, etc.
Study the War in the Pacific and the dropping of the atomic bombs using the last page of highlighted notes, home work etc. Click on the link titled "Iwo Jima" to go to the page with many of those sources.
Level 3. There will be a fill in the blank section, a map section and an identify section.
Level 2. There will be a True/False section, a fill in the blank section, an identify section and a map section.
Honors: There will be a scantron section and an essay.
The Essay Choices:
1.Was Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs justified? Provide 3 arguments that support your position.
2. How did life on the home front change for Americans? Be specific with examples and what those examples were trying to accomplish.
3.Compare and contrast the fighting in Europe with the fighting in the Pacific.....be liberal with specific details.
Cultural Dictionary
totalitarianism [(toh-tal-uh- tair -ee-uh-niz-uhm)]
Domination by a government of all political, social, and economic
activities in a nation. Totalitarianism is a phenomenon of the twentieth century:
earlier forms of despotism lacked the technical capacity to control every
aspect of life. The term is applied both to fascist governments ( see fascism) and
to many forms of communism.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third EditionCopyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
democracy
Government by and for the people. Supreme power is in the hands of the people and
exercised directly/ indirectly through elections.
WW2 Unit terms: totalitarianism, fascism, Bolshevism/Communism, purge, appeasement, eugenics, genocide, blitzkrieg, isolationism, mobilization, war bond, internment, democracy
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace".
President George Washington
"When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars".
Eleanor Roosevelt
"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country".
General George S. Patton
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think".
Adolf Hitler
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never.....".
Sir Winston Churchill
Go here for a superbly done Interactive Timeline on the events leading up to WW2.
and interact with the
WW2 Maps
Read some first hand accounts of the war by clicking below:
WW2 first hand
Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie
The uniform of the SA or "Brown shirts"
The definition of Aryan click here
"What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in 2½ hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years," Hanfstaengl said.
"Because of his miraculous throat construction, he was able to create a rhapsody of hysteria. In time,
he became the living unknown soldier of Germany." Ernst Hanfstaengl - from wikipedia
prop·a·gan·da
/ˌprɒpnoun1.information,ideas,or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person,group,movement, institution,nation,etc.
2.the deliberate spreading of such information,rumors,etc.
3.the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.
From Dictionary.com
Eugenics:
a science that deals with the improvement (as by control of human mating) of hereditary qualities of a race or breedFrom Merriam Webster's Dictionary online.
Examples of SS uniforms and other Nazi symbols
Heinrich Himmler: Head of the SS
Nazi Anti-Semitic Cartoons
Hitler Youth Propaganda Posters
Know the meanings of eugenics, euthanasia and the Lebensborn program.
Einsatzgruppen
Click here to see the Nazis who attended the Wannsee Conference and decided on the Final Solution
See my photostory on the Holocaust here:
The Nuremburg Race Laws of 1935
A young Polish slave laborer in Nazi Germany found in wikipedia
Click here for a great introduction to the significance of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin: Olympics
Joe Louis Vs. Max Schmeling
Go here to read about the Ukranian genocide committed by the communists under Stalin:
http://www.faminegenocide.com/print/resources/unknown.html
"Peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time". Neville Chamberlain
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war!" Winston Churchill
Watch this original footage of a Stuka dive bomber during an attack in the Blitzkrieg:
Attack at Pearl Harbor:
Map of the Pacific. Note where Hawaii is.
A tribute to the US service men and women who died at Pearl Harbor:
Map of the Philippines and the Bataan Death March
Click hear for an overview of the Bataan Death March
Bataan Death March survivor website
The Doolittle Raid April 18, 1942 (How much time had passed since the attack on Pearl Harbor?)
Superb Doolittle's Raiders Link
" The bombing of Tokyo and several other cities has brought about a tremendous change in the attitude
of our people towards the war. Now things are different. The bombs have dropped here on our homes.
It does not seem any more that there is a such a big difference between the battle front and the home front".
- from a letter written by a Japanese civilian
Click here to see pictures of a US GI captured in Africa
Map of WW2 in Europe
Click on the poster below to go to the "Homefront"
View of a sinking Japanese warship from the periscope of a US submarine
Read about the WW2 incident that made future president "JFK" a hero here PT-109
Air war
Click on the above map to learn more about the German defenses along the Normandy coast.
Listen to General Eisenhower's D-Day speech to the troops:
Eisenhower's DDay Speech
Normandy Invasion Interactive Map
Hear FDR's famous prayer for the troops on D-Day.
Read about the famous "Bedford Boys" here.
Battle of the Bulge Click on the link. Read the Battle of the Bulge summary.
1. What stood out to you about the summary?
2. Look at the various US and German uniforms under the summary. What can you learn about the Battle of tghe Bulge from these uniforms?
3. Look at the map below. What significance do you think the town of Bastogne had on the battle?
Battle of the Bulge map from http://www.olive-drab.com/images/map_bulge_1944_full.jpg
Reading on the "Massacre at Malmedy" link: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/malmedy_massacre.htm
Then answer these two questions:
Malmedy Massacre Photo
Ted Paluch 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion...survivor of Malmedy Massacre on left Joachim Peiper, 1st SS officer at Malmedy on right.
A famous reply to the Germans at Bastogne
A local Hatboro hero of WW2 passes away
Jack Agnew
Here is another great story long after the war ended here
And another great link to the American heroes of WW2 here
Read about this American War Hero
The end is near for Germany!
The official meeting of US and Soviet forces on the Elbe River in Germany.
After reading the article about the Swamp Ghost, please go here.
Watch the "Funeral pyres of Nazidom"
"The success of this occupation can only be judged fifty years from now. If the Germans
at that time have a stable, prosperous democracy, then we shall have succeeded".
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945
The Battle of Tarawa
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Just a great video!
First atomic test blast July 16, 1945
Real footage of "Little Boy" and "Fatman" the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan ending WW2 and Japanese aggression:
American B-29 similar to the Enola Gay from Mr. J's collection
View the official Japanese surrender on V-J Day September 2, 1945
"V-J Day Times Square NYWTS" by New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: DeMarsico, Dick, photographer. - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c19650. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V-J_Day_Times_Square_NYWTS.jpg#/media/File:V-J_Day_Times_Square_NYWTS.jpg
American Battle Monuments Commission
Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial
Nazi War Criminals
Amazing rescue footage of a B-29 airmen by a US submarine in the Pacific!
Soldiers of the Bataan Death March were honored in New Mexico 70 years after the event.
70th Anniversary of Bataan
40th Anniversary of D-day and President Reagan
Gone Home
Last Japanese soldier who surrendered died in 2014
WW2 Japanese Fighter Pilot and feelings on modern Japan
WW2 Test Review (Part 2)
Level 3. There will be a fill in the blank section, a map section and an identify section.
Level 2. There will be a True/False section, a fill in the blank section, an identify section and a map section.
Honors: There will be a scantron section and an essay.
The Essay Choices:
1.Was Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs justified? Provide 3 arguments that support your position.
2. How did life on the home front change for Americans? Be specific with examples and what those examples were trying to accomplish.
3.Compare and contrast the fighting in Europe with the fighting in the Pacific.....be liberal with specific details.